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I've had this since I was a child, my first coin I ever found. It was cleaned once a long time ago and sealed until a few days ago.Any help on this would be great :) Thank you!   Edited by TimberBass
02/04/2015 8:35 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Poor pics. Best guess is VF25. I do love the small 8
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Pillar of the Community
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Thank you
I'll take a very clear picture for you. I found it under a slate rock.
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02/05/2015 1:06 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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N-5 die variety. VF-25 sharpness EAC 15 cleaned and ugly retoning.
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Sorry again about the photo I took! The light shining down on it really changes the coloring .
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Pillar of the Community
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Sorry but being cleaned it has a rainbow effect going on that true large cent collectors like myself avoid. I understand that the coin was buried so it may be that the color when found was worse than this. What I look for is a nice even chocolate brown.
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The color when I found it back in the 70's was black you couldn't even see it. I took it out of the case and it's sitting in the window. Thanks for the info again.
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Pillar of the Community
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The window sill is your best bet. Hopefully it will tone more evenly without the rainbow affect. It is a great coin and a difficult variety to get your hands on. Of course having been found years ago I'm sure it has a lot of sentimental value. As a large cent collector I just wish it looked like I want it to look.  |
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Celtic I tired to email you but is wouldn't allow me to.The bright sunlight helped and I had one of those very old tanning lights from the 70's. The rainbow is gone and has a nice color now. Thanks and btw the details seem to look much better now. The sun lamp broke fried itself :(.
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update the toning is getting better   |
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Tanning lights - now there's something I never tried!  to the CCF! |
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